Research Scientist: Energy Based Models

Job description

Astera Institute Research Scientist: Energy based models About the Role: We are seeking brilliant, unconventional thinkers to join us. In this role, you will not be chasing incremental gains on standard benchmarks. Instead, you will be tasked with developing the foundational principles of Artificial General Intelligence. We believe that understanding the "code of the brain" is the most viable path to building truly intelligent machines, and we are looking for scientists who can bridge the gap between biological intelligence, computational theory, and building at scale. Core Responsibilities: Fundamental Research on Energy Based, Hierarchical Latent Variable Models: Develop and implement new architectures and learning/inference algorithms for neuroscience-inspired energy-based world models, with focus on representations that allow for parallel distributed planning. Scientific Discovery: Design experiments to test hypotheses regarding high-level cognition, causal representations, sensory-motor integration, active inference, and unsupervised learning. Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration: Work alongside neuroscientists and software engineers to translate abstract mathematical frameworks i...